I've had a few people ask why I called the Sad Puppies campaign "vandalism". Some of this will be restating what I said before, but - Because the organizers of the Sad Puppies won't care for WorldCon after those who did care for it are driven away. Organizing and running a con like this is a massive amount of work. People do it for the love of the work. And you know what drove that love? The SF literature. Specifically - for a group of people who read widely and deeply in SF to get together every year and argume amongst themselves "What is the absolute best out there? What pushes the frontiers? What is genre-defining?"
Why "Vandals"?
Why "Vandals"?
Why "Vandals"?
I've had a few people ask why I called the Sad Puppies campaign "vandalism". Some of this will be restating what I said before, but - Because the organizers of the Sad Puppies won't care for WorldCon after those who did care for it are driven away. Organizing and running a con like this is a massive amount of work. People do it for the love of the work. And you know what drove that love? The SF literature. Specifically - for a group of people who read widely and deeply in SF to get together every year and argume amongst themselves "What is the absolute best out there? What pushes the frontiers? What is genre-defining?"